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Poison   /pˈɔɪzən/   Listen
Poison

noun
1.
Any substance that causes injury or illness or death of a living organism.  Synonyms: poisonous substance, toxicant.
2.
Anything that harms or destroys.
verb
(past & past part. poisoned; pres. part. poisoning)
1.
Spoil as if by poison.  "Poison the atmosphere in the office"
2.
Kill with poison.
3.
Add poison to.  Synonym: envenom.
4.
Kill by its poison.
5.
Administer poison to.



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"Poison" Quotes from Famous Books



... the contrary, took it like a lamb—sat still and let the poison work in his veins without resistance—in the sharpest exacerbations of his wound (like that on his groin) he never dropt one fretful or discontented word—he blamed neither heaven nor earth—or thought or spoke an injurious thing of any body, or any part ...
— The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman • Laurence Sterne
... roll out the paste she had taken a deadly poison of a most awful character, distilled from toads' eyes and spiders' knees; and Captain Murderer had hardly picked her last bone, when he began to swell, and to turn blue, and to be all over spots, and to scream. ...
— The Uncommercial Traveller • Charles Dickens
... end he replaced the book with a firm determination never to look at it again. But the poison was in his mind, and ...
— The Soul of a Child • Edwin Bjorkman
... nearly the whole way to Buonconvento, a little town where the Emperor Henry VII. died, as it was supposed, of poison, in 1313. It is still circled with the wall and gates built by the Sienese in 1366, and is a fair specimen of an intact mediaeval stronghold. Here we leave the main road, and break into a country-track across a bed of sandstone, ...
— New Italian sketches • John Addington Symonds
... on the verge of D.T.'s—she was intelligent; most of 'em are fools—express her analytical opinion of the men who patronized her. The men who make our news system have much the same notion of their public. How much poison they scatter abroad we won't know until ...
— Success - A Novel • Samuel Hopkins Adams


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